Re: Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-17 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:51:32 -0400, Shawn Drew >> said: > We started using Virtual Volumes earlier this year for some new > branch locations with no local, long-term storage. As it works, > multiple virtual volumes will get stacked into one "real" sequential > volume. > The problem is tha

Re: Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Denier
-Shawn Drew wrote: - >TSM 5.5.3 > >For some reason, it seems to ignore the maxsize setting. I've set >the devclass to 50G, but the volumes seem to randomly choose when >they are full. Collocation is disabled. Here is an excerpt from >a q vol. Strange. > >[Excerpt deleted] If I remember

Re: Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-13 Thread Shawn Drew
awn Drew Internet nbstr...@lmus.leggmason.com Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 08/13/2009 12:55 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volume assistance Shawn, In your virtual volume devclass definition you might try to set a maxsize equal to

Re: Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-13 Thread Strand, Neil B.
genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volume assistance We started using Virtual Volumes earlier this year

Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-13 Thread Shawn Drew
We started using Virtual Volumes earlier this year for some new branch locations with no local, long-term storage. As it works, multiple virtual volumes will get stacked into one "real" sequential volume. The problem is that periodically, a reclamation process will require two volumes that happen